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As well as inspiring the ITE students to apply their It was a great pleasure to have good teamwork support
technical skills in protecting our shared global from the NYAA, HSBC, Prof Jeff Obbard and the ITE
environment, the projects also developed their skills & management team on this project. We hope our effort
aptitude in communicating and conveying information and partnership with the SMEs will continue well into the
to the project stakeholders. future to achieve an even higher level of environmental
performance. We hope more ITE students will be
The SMEs truly welcomed ITE’s effort in leading them inspired to protect our environment and find exciting
on this sustainability journey. They were appreciative career opportunities to support Singapore’s green
of the savings achieved on business operational costs economy.
- especially during the economic hardship due to the
Covid-19 pandemic. We thank HSBC for the kind funding support to the
SMEs and the ESI teams. Our thanks also go to Ms Ong
Ya Yi, Vice-President, Corporate Sustainability, HSBC
Students designed scientific experiments, and Singapore, Mr James Soh, Executive Director, NYAA
through the application of technology, recommended Council and Professor Jeff Obbard, for making this
sustainability solutions that advanced Singapore’s project a success.
commitment to environmental sustainability and
reduced carbon emissions. The following sections include the individual ESI team
reports for the environmental reviews conducted for
Project Outcomes & Acknowledgements each of the fifteen SMEs involved in the project. At the
end of this report is an Annex containing the data and
information pertaining to the environmental reviews for
This project has shown that it is possible to improve each SME.
a company’s environmental performance, enhance
sustainability and cut carbon emission, whilst lowering
business operational costs and improving the bottom
line.

We are grateful for such a positive project outcome
and acknowledge the role of the 15 SME companies in
Singapore involved in the project., We are truly thankful
for their support to the ESI teams from ITE. In Singapore,
there are approximately 219,000 SMEs. If all SMEs in
Singapore carried out similar practices, there would
be significant reductions in Singapore’s CO emissions.
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The project truly represents a win-win outcome for the
environment and Singapore’s aspirations to develop a
green economy!

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